Mrs. Ingraham was reared in Schuyler County, MO. She graduated from Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) in 1959. She taught at Prairie View, Gibbs, Bible Grove and the Schuyler County Junior High School. In 1974, she received the Outstanding Teacher of America Award based on her professional and civic achievements.

She was an active member of the Kirksville Baptist Church and taught Sunday School, Bible School and Training Union for over 50 years until October 2000, when she moved to Memphis, MO.

She loved to sew, crochet, quilt and do crafts and shared these gifts with her family and friends.

A funeral service will be held Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 2:00 p.m. in the Davis-Playle-Hudson-Rimer Funeral Chapel in Kirksville, MO. Reverend Clay Joiner will conduct the service. Music will be provided by Jim Shaddy, soloist, and Mabel Reed, organist. Burial will be in the Fugate Cemetery in Schuyler County, MO. Casket bearers will be her great-grandsons. Memorials in memory of Violet can be made to the Missouri Baptist Home in Chillicothe, MO, or the American Cancer Society. Davis-Playle-Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home, Kirksville, MO was in charge of arrangements.